Queen Anne of Romania – obituary

Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma with King Michael at Ayot House in Hertfordshire with their daughters Margarita and Elena on September 2, 1953Credit:
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1 August 2016 • 6:06pm

Queen Anne of Romania, who has died aged 92, was queen of a country whose language she did not speak and on whose soil she did not step until she was nearly 70.

Related to most of the royal families of Europe, and wife of the exiled and troubled King Michael of Romania, she was content to live the life of a Swiss housewife. Her great simplicity and adaptability were invaluable attributes in her marriage to a serious-minded man who had been dispossessed of his country and the duties which gave his life purpose.

His career took her from a chicken farm in Hertfordshire to suburban life in Switzerland, and then threw the pair both back into the public eye after the overthrow of Ceausescu in Romania...